The Breakdown.

The Girl With The Pearl Necklace.

The Ghost, The Truth and The Details.

The meticulous attention to detail that is characteristic of all Roman Polanski's films is evident in his latest and may be last directorial masterpiece The Ghost adapted from Robert Harris' bestseller.

This is old school film making as it comes. It does not come any better than this. For example, on the first day of shooting, the cast and crew went 22 hours straight and this is a man that's nearly 80 years old.

Everybody brought their 'A-game' to this project. Everything from the music score(which I think should win an Oscar), to the location(shot on a remote location in Germany), to the casting was excellently excecuted.

Forget the Kim Catrall of Sex And The City- fame, this is a different one, her accent and speech pattern are exquisite and so is her wadrope.

Pierce Brosnan shines as the disgraced ex-British PM Adam Lang that's under investigation by the international war crimes court in The Hague.

Ewen McGregor brings his A-game too as the ghost writer of Adam Lang's soon-to-be-released memoirs that discovers The Truth in the former ghost's draft.

And to top it all off, Olivia Williams outshines everyone as the dark horse in the form of Lang's wife Ruth whose character is a no-nonsense-straight-talking-cut-the-'malakey' kind of woman that holds the key to this whole plot.
And of course not forgetting Tom Wilkinson as Professor Paul Emmett.

Putting aside his troubles, Polanski is a master at his game and this project is a challenge to the plodding literalism of mordern film making, as rigidly enforced by the status quo in the name of 'commerciability' for a lack of a better word. I do urge everyone to go see it.

On the hand, I do get mental pains looking at things that haven't been properly excecuted. The truth always lies in the details just like in The Ghost.
Speaking of details and proper excecutions, here are some examples of well thought out outfits.

The Return!

My Nikon and Me.

Death likes to drive through darkened surburban streets, sightseeing as you would take your loved ones to look at the christmas lights on a chill and snowy December's eve.

The Multi-tasker.

Everytime I awake in the morning, it's beat the clock.
For those of us that have a million things going on at the same time, you have no choice but to multi-task.

So on this very cold day ( I couldn't feel my fingers after an hour of straight non-stop street hunting), I spotted this young lady standing at one of the windows of Liberty's at the Great Marlborough street entrance.

The fur caught my eye at first then the Marc jacobs but I had been seeing that all day and I thought to myself, 'nothing special.'
But then as I was still deciding whether to shoot her or not, I noticed that she had a cigarette, cheque book and blackberry in her hands and seemed to be doing three activities at the same time plus she looked stylish while doing them.

This was the clincher because it is symbolic of today's non-stop world.

The mordern world has become faster and there are never enough hours in the day to finish all the things one has to do.

The Dapper Gent.

This young man caught my eye as I was on my way to Oxford Circus tube after a meeting in Soho. I wasn't even 'street hunting' that day but I usually carry my camera with me just in case.

Anyway, I stopped him for a shot and we got talking. I asked him whether he was a pilot and he told me that he couldn't say but his outfit said it all.



P.S. I'm going away to Lyford Cay for the foreseable future to see a man about a cheque. I'll try to get on here as much as I can. See ya!